Two days prior to Varrin’s letter being published, the Sentinel published mine rebutting Michael Schuman’s misinformation-filled piece. It said it was edited for length. My original was under 700 words, and I haven’t taken the time to compare the two (here’s the original), but here is the version they published: (more…)
The president of the Free State Project, Varrin Swearingen, has had his letter to the editor of the Keene Sentinel published, correcting the wild misinformation that has previously been found in the paper, particularly in Michael Schuman’s, “Will the Free Staters Please Sit Down” article. Here it is, since the Sentinel link will expire after a week:
“Freedom Lovers, Stand Up”
For those of you who don’t know me, allow me to introduce myself.
I moved to Keene in 2004 with my wife of 16 years and two children, now 7 and 8.
I have owned the same home in Keene since moving here. I attend Grace Evangelical Free Church in Spofford, am a DC-10 captain for an international charter airline, home-school our active children and play drums and other musical instruments.
I also serve as the president of the Free State Project.
Over the past several weeks, numerous news articles and opinion pieces have mentioned the Free State Project. I’d like to offer facts and opinions that I hope will shed light on the subject from an angle not yet covered. (more…)
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I was a guest tonight on a liberty podcast. Details to follow.
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Liberty activists called WKBK’s “Talkback” on the last two Saturday mornings and discussed planning boards, paint colors, parking fines, government, Somalia, rules, getting from here to a voluntary society, and the Community Kitchen.
Grab the archive. This Saturday the 13th, I’ll be in as a guest for the 11:30-Noon segment!
Please join us for our weekly listening, chat, and calling sessions on Saturday mornings from 9a-12p in the Free Keene Chat room. If you’re online, you can listen to Talkback streamed live via the Liberty Radio Network and if you’re in the Keene area you can tune in to WKBK 1290 AM or 104.1 FM. The Talkback discussion thread is here on the Free Keene Forum.
Thanks to Lauren Canario:
In response to my discourse on the so called “Civil War”, AnnAmazedReader wrote this in the comments:
Debates regarding the circumstances under which the secession of a town, city, county, state or region from a larger “entity” are potentially interesting, although I would imagine that any enemy of the FSP would welcome the project’s members waxing verbose about the North’s engagement with the South in our Civil War being essentially evil. Arguing on behalf of a region’s supposedly inalienable right to treat human beings as chattel (while making the childish analogy between said chattel and American citizens in our time) on the basis of the sanctity of property rights is probably not a winner, folks. Unless you are actually 1) trying to undermine the movement, or 2) fundamentally non-serious and more inclined towards attention-getting stunts and rhetoric. Sorry.
Well-meaning Americans like Ann have been seriously misinformed. It wasn’t necessary to fight wars to abolish slavery in other parts of the world. (more…)
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